"Senior Gu... thank you for the pendant, otherwise we would have almost never been able to come back... I will never call you a pervert behind your back again..."
Hui Yuanxiong hugged Gu Yanan's thigh and cried loudly.
Gu Yanan's face was covered with black lines. Looking at the snot and tears stained on his pants, he kicked Haiyuan Xiong away.
"Stop howling!" Gu Yanan patted his shoes in disgust: "Look at your worthless look!"
Qihai looked around with the pendant and asked curiously: "Senior, how did you do it?"
Gu Yanan smiled proudly: "It's very simple. Just construct a barrier, inject the positive energy generated by the reversal technique into it, then shrink it and put it on the pendant."
"..." Qihai opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.
It's like asking someone how to put an elephant in a refrigerator.
He answered you, just open the refrigerator door, put the elephant in, and then close the refrigerator door.
Nanami had many questions in her mind.
For example, how can we keep the barrier stable even as the barrier shrinks?
How to keep the internal space unchanged while the external enchantment shrinks?
How to prevent the positive energy inside the barrier from counteracting the spell of the barrier?
How to make the barrier attach to a real object...forget it.
Qihai shook his head. He estimated that Gu Yanan couldn't answer these questions himself.
To be able to reach this point purely by relying on oneself and the instinct of the technique...should it be said that it is worthy of being a special grade? No, special grade can’t do this!
Gu Yanan was completely unaware of Qihai's violent inner fluctuations: "I'll go to that land god... Where's Xia You? Why haven't you seen him?"
"Oh, Senior Xia You is on a mission. He just left yesterday."
Gu Yanan frowned: "I told him to rest for a few days, why did Mr. Noctua give him a mission?"
Haihara Xiong shrugged: "It seems that he took it on himself... he said he couldn't take any time off."
"Really..." Gu Yan'an shook his head: "Forget it, let's have a dinner together when he comes back this time."
"What to eat? Ramen?"
"Can you be a little more ambitious? Great Chinese Cuisine! Let me give you a taste of real food this time!"
…
At dusk, Xia Youjie walked to the entrance of the village with a tired look on his face.
"I feel tired just from walking. Oh, it seems I really need to take a good rest..." Xia Youjie rubbed his face vigorously, trying to cheer himself up.
"You are Mr. Xia Youjie." A sturdy middle-aged man ran over and introduced himself: "My name is Yin Gu Qinglong. I am from the local fire brigade and the client of this mission."
"Hello." Xia Youjie shook hands with Yin Gu Qinglong: "Can you take me to the address of the missing person? I want to find the cause of the incident as soon as possible."
Yin Gu Qinglong said hesitantly: "Why don't you take a rest first? I see you are very tired."
Xia Youjie shook his head and said firmly: "It doesn't matter. If something happens again today, it will be my fault."
"That's...ok."
Yin Gu Qinglong took Xia Youjie to visit the addresses of various missing persons, and Xia Youjie easily noticed the remnants of the curse left everywhere.
After communicating with the families of the missing persons, Xia Youjie became more certain of his suspicions.
It seems that the previous speculation is correct, it is indeed the curse spirit that is causing trouble...
Xia Youjie touched his chin, a glint flashed in his eyes.
"Mr. Yingu, where is the divine realm you mentioned?"
"There is a cave on the back mountain. The old man in the village said that this is where the 'god' lives. No one who goes in has ever come out... We also set up a stone tablet in front of the cave entrance and go up there to burn incense sticks from time to time."
"Can you take me there?"
"This..." Yin Gu Qingtaka hesitated: "The recent cases have made people panic, and I'm afraid not many people are willing to lead the way... Well, I will take you there tomorrow morning. To be honest, it is really scary for me to go up the mountain in the dark. …”
Xia Youjie nodded understandingly: "Okay, then let's do it tomorrow."
"Okay, okay." Yin Gu Qinglong took Xia Youjie's arm enthusiastically: "You haven't eaten yet. Come back to my house to have dinner. You will sleep in my room tonight, and the bedding is new..."
"This is so embarrassing."
"Where, it should be."
…
"Come on, eat more, let's see how thin you are..." Yingu Qinglong's mother put vegetables into Xia Youjie's bowl with a smile.
Looking at the food piled up in the bowl, Xia Youjie put it all into his mouth with a wry smile.
"That kid from my family is in high school in the city. He hasn't made a single phone call for half a year. He's such a bad boy..."
After drinking a few glasses of sake, and becoming familiar with each other, Yin Gu Qingtaka talked about home affairs.
The old man on the side occasionally chimed in, and the rest of the time he put vegetables into Xia Youjie's bowl.
After having enough wine and food, Xia Youjie was politely invited to the room, where there were specially prepared hot water towels.
"It's really troublesome for you..."
"What's the matter? You are here to help us solve the problem..."
The moon was sparse, Xia Youjie released several curse spirits to monitor the village, and then fell asleep.
The next day, after breakfast, Yin Gu Qinglong summoned members of the local fire brigade and took Xia Youjie up the mountain.
"This is it...any questions?"
"It's okay...you guys, please step back."
Yin Gu Qinglong and the others looked at each other and took a few steps back in confusion.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew up, and Yin Gu Qinglong almost felt his body was frozen.
He vaguely saw a giant beast growing its mouth and swallowing some of the shadows on the stone tablet.
The ground shook violently, and the fire brigade personnel almost lost their footing.
Everything returned to calm, except for a few cracks in the stone tablet in front of the cave entrance.
"Is this...solved?"
"Well, it's no problem."
Hearing this, Yin Gu Qinglong excitedly held Xia Youjie's hand:
"Thank you so much. You are indeed a capable person. This has opened my eyes..."
"Okay, let's go down the mountain first."
"No problem. Let's go after lunch..."
Although most people did not see the process of Xia Youjie exorcising the cursed spirit, the villagers quickly believed the news that "the village was safe" thanks to the fire brigade members' propaganda.
Yingu's house soon became the liveliest place in the village, and villagers kept coming to celebrate with their best dishes.
In this lively and festive atmosphere, Xia Youjie gradually let go of his worries.
Sure enough, there are still more good people in this world.
Those believers are just ordinary people who have been deceived.
The culprit has been found, so there is no need for you to dwell on it.
Isn’t this good?…
"By the way, let Master help us take a look at those two monsters!"
"Yeah, don't let the two of them cause any trouble again."
Xia Youjie frowned.
…
There is a prison underneath the temple in the center of the village.
In ancient times, it was used to imprison some criminals.
At the entrance to the underground prison, there were two middle-aged men in their forties or fifties guarding the entrance.
"I heard that the village invited a master to subdue the monsters on the mountain."
"What kind of master? I've seen it. He's just a teenage brat..."
"Shut up, or someone will put a curse on you."
"It's okay, I don't believe he is really that amazing..."
A small transparent insect climbed up one of them's shoulder and got into his ear.
After the little bug got in, the guard was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes became blurred.
"Hello? Why did you suddenly stop talking?"
"Huh? It's nothing, I just felt a little dizzy suddenly."
The man shook his head and looked into the entrance involuntarily: "The person who delivers the food won't be here for a while, right?"
"Probably, they all went to see that 'master'."
"Then tell me, should the two of us go in and take a look?"
"What's so good about two little girls..."
The other guard was suddenly stunned, then swallowed and continued in a low voice: "You don't want to..."
"No one cares about them. They will die at some point. Why don't we just have some fun?"
"This... doesn't it mean that there is a curse on them?"
"Don't you believe this stuff?"
The two guards looked at each other, then suddenly stood up and walked inside at the same time.
In the empty flat land, a strange voice sounded:
"Human beings are always so ugly...Xia Youjie, don't let me down in preparing all this for you..."
…
When Xia Youjie came to the underground prison, he saw an unsightly scene.
A little girl with black hair cried desperately, avoiding the clutches of an adult man.
Another girl with short yellow hair had been pinned down by the guard, and she shed tears in despair.
Most of their clothes had been torn off, and a few more scars were added to their bruised bodies.
The two guards didn't expect anyone to come over, so they awkwardly lifted up their pants: "We...we are just checking their bodies..."
Yin Gu Qinglong frowned: "You two don't mind being dirty either!"
Xia Youjie looked a little dumbfounded: "What... does this mean?"
"Alas. You don't know that these two little girls have brain problems and have been attacking the villagers with strange powers. They are the ones who caused the things on the mountain."
Xia Youjie poked his forehead hard with his thumb: "No..."
"That's right, my grandson was also injured after being attacked by them." Yin Gu Qingtaka's mother showed a look of hatred: "The cause of all incidents is..."
"No!" The girl with short yellow hair shouted with tears in her eyes: "Your grandson is himself..."
"Shut up! Monster!" Yin Gu Kiyotaka's mother's expression became extremely ferocious: "Your parents are the same! If I had known better, I should have strangled you to death when you were babies!"
Xia Youjie poked his forehead more frequently.
"Mr. Xia You, can you help these two people take a look? Maybe they are stained with something..." Yin Gu Qinglong said with a smile.
Xia Youjie's brows furrowed into knots.
"Which one is you depends on your future choices."
Xia Youjie's brows slowly relaxed.
"Everyone." He heard his own voice: "Let's go out and talk."
